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Abstract
With advancing age ,there is tremendous heterogenicity of health and function of older individuals .
Health service provision for the older adult is an issue of increasing importance, especially in industrialized nations. The over-65s account for ~15% of the population, and it is anticipated that by 2050 the dependence ratio of older people (i.e. those aged ≥ 65 as a proportion of those aged 20–64) will have risen from the current figure of 22% to 46%.Hospital admissions for emergencies have continued to increase year on year, with the largest increases in the over-65s. Indeed, some epidemiologists have concluded that the future of in-patient emergency medical care is the care of the older adult .
The human rights of the elderly is a topic that is somewhat neglected. Domestically, this is a dimension that is increasingly taken into account in at least some countries, but often in a haphazard way. Internationally, the debate on the predicament of senior citizens in terms of rights is only beginning.This is not to say that the elderly are not a concern, but that the issue is typically debated through registers, analytical or normative, other than that of human rights: medical, welfare, political, economic . Yet arguably the elderly raise specific issues in terms of human rights and can be said to have distinct “human rights experiences